was a

village A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...

located in Shimokita District in northern

Aomori Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan in the Tōhoku region. The prefecture's capital, largest city, and namesake is the city of Aomori. Aomori is the northernmost prefecture on Japan's main island, Honshu, and is bordered by the Pacific Ocean to the east, ...

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

. Wakinosawa Village was founded in 1889 from the merger the hamlets of Wakinosawa with neighboring Ozawa. On March 14, 2005, Wakinosawa, along with the neighboring towns of Kawauchi and Ōhata (all from Shimokita District), was

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into the neighboring and expanded city of Mutsu, and thus no longer exists as an independent municipality. Located at the southwestern tip of

Shimokita Peninsula is the remote northeastern cape of the Japanese island of Honshū, stretching out towards Hokkaidō. Overview It is bordered by the Pacific Ocean to the east, Tsugaru Strait to the north and Mutsu Bay to the west and south. Shaped like an axe ...

facing

Mutsu Bay is a bay located within Aomori Prefecture, in the northern Tōhoku region of northern Japan. It has an east-west distance of approximately and a north-south distance of approximately at its eastern end, with a total area of approximately . N ...

, the village of Wakinosawa had an economy based primarily on

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. At the time of its merger, the village had an estimated

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of 2,461 and a

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of 42.06 persons per km². The total area was 58.59 km². Wakinosawa was served by

Route 338 (Japan) is a national highway in the Japanese prefectures of Hokkaido and Aomori. Route 338 stretches from National Route 5 in Hakodate, Hokkaido south across the Tsugaru Strait by ferry to Ōma, Aomori, around the western, southern, and eastern ed ...

highway, but had no railway service. Ferries connect the fishing port with

Aomori is the capital city of Aomori Prefecture, in the Tōhoku region of Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 278,964 in 136,457 households, and a population density of 340 people per square kilometer spread over the city's total area of ...

and Kanita on the opposite side of Mutsu Bay.

Climate

References

Dissolved municipalities of Aomori Prefecture {{aomori-geo-stub